An Arts and Crafts Silver and Enamel Reliquary by George Edward Hunt
of hexagonal form modelled in the style of a renaissance reliquary. Decorated on each side with the figures of saints
standing beneath arches, above which sit panels decorated with green and blue cloisonné enamel and threaded seed pearls.
The reliquary contains a small glass vial, which can be revealed by removing the enamelled dome, the pinnacle of which is
set with a pearl. The reliquary can be suspended from a chain, which is decorated with enamel leaves and berries.

Signed: 'GH'  for George Edward Hunt
Circa 1920

Height: 9cm

George Edward Hunt was born in Dudley in 1892. He entered the St Margaret School of Art in 1908,
where he was taught by leading silversmiths such as Bernard Cuzner, now famed for his work for Liberty & Co.
Hunt also studied alongside other key Arts and Crafts jewelers, such as Dorrie Nossiter and Katie Eadie.
Hunt produced his jewels at The Studio, 10 Bull St, Harborne, Birmingham.

A similar example was exhibited in the ‘George Edward Hunt: The Silent World of an Arts and Crafts Jeweller’ exhibition (2006).
The example illustrated in the accompanying catalogue is of square form but is similarly decorated with enamel and seeds pearls.